SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco city leaders are working on new legislation to help firefighters begin replacing their aging fleet. Some of the vehicles are 50 years old. Now department and city leaders say they need to change the law to make sure firefighters can get what they need.

Outdated equipment

The backstory:

With more than 800,000 residents in San Francisco, emergencies are commonplace and fire vehicles, including a 1990s-era engine at Station 38, roll out at all hours of the day and night.

That puts a lot of miles on these vehicles that the department has had for decades in many cases. A hose tender at Station 38 was manufactured in the 1970s, and would almost certainly have to be called upon in the case of a major earthquake or disaster.

The city's fire chief, Dean Crispe

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